[thrownaway2424]

NYPD says they don't even have the resources to investigate fatal car crashes. They didn't bother investigating the death of a three year old girl in a crosswalk this year. The driver didn't even get so much as a ticket. If there's some cop standing around with nothing to do I'm sure they could be assigned to look into the fifty pedestrian injury collisions that happen every day in New York.

[avn2109]

>> "If there's some cop standing around with nothing to do..."

Honestly, I have (almost) only ever seen NYPD officers standing around with nothing to do. I don't know if that's because they are drastically overmanned or because they intentionally deploy loafing cops for the deterrent effect.

[keithpeter]

"Walking the beat" in the UK.

It is what uniformed police officers are supposed to do in popular imagination. Many in evidence in most UK cities in the run up to Xmas.